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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Portugal offer to take Iraqi refugees rebuffed as favoritism

[In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, a Yazidi refugee woman looks out of a window of a hotel room in the northern Greek village of Agios Athanasios, near Thessaloniki city. Portugal has offered to take in several hundred of the 2,500 Yazidi refugees living in Greece, arguing that the mistreated religious minority merits special protection. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)]AGIOS ATHANASIOS, Greece (AP) — As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new continent. Now, the Yazidi — whose faith is older than Christianity — are at the center of a new European dilemma.


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